In this class, you will learn how to create and style a delicate paper poppy as well as go home with supplies to make two more flowers on your own. Your take-home bag will include a template and information about the anatomy of the flower art that will be covered in the course. Learn about paper types and how to shape and style your petals.

Your Instructor - “Aislinn is a Product Designer by day and a self-taught crepe paper botanical artist by night. She first tried making paper flowers with a kit after seeing the finished art on one of her favorite blogs, and although she was not immediately enamored, she tried a few more times before completely falling in love with the process.  Paper botanical art combines a love of flora with patience and layering to create stunning, durable flowers that are sure to cheer any room.”

Magic the Gathering game play and instructional, hosted by Jon Bilderback. Come as a seasoned player or someone who wants to learn! No cards needed.

Slurp 'n Sketch Sundays with Magikal Megan is an experience for those who want to learn more about drawing, but who don't want to sit through a super serious class on the subject. Part stand up comedy, part sing-along (with thematic playlists), each 90 minute session will include a demonstration of drawing principles and techniques to take you from basic doodling to successfully building texture and dimension in your work, all while leaving room to relax, chat, and interact with friends.

Session 3: Working With Color--Going from monochrome to a full color palette is tricky business! In this workshop, we will apply the interdimensional observational skills learned in Session 2 to the work of drawing something that is alive with nuances of color. Learn how to pick your palette for success, and enter the 4th dimension.

THE SHUT UP - Ten years of don’t worry about it. “The Shut Ups are an all improvisational freak out instrumental rock band from Austin, Texass. They play 20 min shows that are different each time and encourage audience participation. You ain't seen nothin' like it.”

GARRET T. CAPPS - “GTC is a Bad mofo. He makes cowboy kraut with his band NASA Country & also lots of Tex-Mex rock n' roll. He is San Antonio’s resident cosmic country gonzo honky tonk weirdo freak. He is a national treasure in Holland. He can usually be found at The Lonesome Rose, the bar he owns in the city he was born in. foo.”

COUNTRY WILLIE EDWARDS - “From the east Texas backwoods, Country Willie Edwards brings songs of days gone by, women, honky tonks, and the unknown. Some call him a recluse, many consider him folk legend. A farmer by trade who rarely ventures into the city, Country Willie is a man from another time and place. Born on an island in the pines, he grew up leading hymns in front of a small rural baptist congregation and as a teenager toured the east Texas opry circuit with the likes of Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert. Known for epic live sets both solo and featuring rotating band members, he writes and records all his own music. A favorite in Austin, Country Willie Edwards is now garnering attention as a true outsider songwriter around Texas and the south.With hundreds of original songs to his credit, it has been said that no other artist can write about simpler times, life on other planets, freedom, and salvation in a way that will leave you believing in all of it.”

Join Lockhart’s own supergroup Mountain Jam as they celebrate the life and times of Dickey Betts and the music of The Allman Brothers.

Two sets of jams from albums like Eat a Peach and At Fillmore East, you’ll be jammin’ all night long.

Featuring Will Rhodes, Mark Creaney, Andy Bianculli, Lee Braverman, and Ben Jacks

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8 • $10 at the door

Join the Lockbuster Movie Club for another night of bad movies & good times.

This month we’ll be showing “Miami Connection”.

Here’s what you need to know: Multi-national martial arts rock band Dragon Sound embark on a wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice, clamping down on Florida's narcotic trade.

Each movie is paired with an Overly-Complicated Cocktail themed to the movie, so expect this one to be rock & roll, beachy, and radical. It will not include narcotics.

8pm • Free entry, laughing encouraged

Slurp 'n Sketch Sundays with Magikal Megan is an experience for those who want to learn more about drawing, but who don't want to sit through a super serious class on the subject. Part stand up comedy, part sing-along (with thematic playlists), each 90 minute session will include a demonstration of drawing principles and techniques to take you from basic doodling to successfully building texture and dimension in your work, all while leaving room to relax, chat, and interact with friends.

Session 2: Building Complex Forms--After a brief recap of Rendering basics, we build two dimensions from one, and three dimensions from two. How do you render a basket full of fruit or a human figure? By going inter-dimensional, of course!

We're cookin' up something fun for next weekend! This will be a kind of soft-open/test-run for more short film nights to come, hell yeah!

There are so many talented folks in our community and we want to see your shorts! From short dramatic pieces to comedy sketches to music videos, we want to see them all! We're aiming for 7-10 minutes per film, but we'll look at every submission individually.

Let's all hang out and watch each other's shorts! Start submitting now and we'll see you next Saturday. Here's to FILM in Lockhart.

Videos can be submitted at http://bit.ly/lac-film, and please also email info@ltxac.com with a short description (for the intro) and any social media you would like to share for those involved and/or promotion.

It’s time for Open Mic Night! Come sing a song, follow along with our flash fiction prompts, read a poem, tell some jokes, or anything else!

Flash Fiction Prompts:

• Death, Taxes, and Trouble

• The worms take over

• Long days, warm nights

Come by around 7 to sign up on the day of the event!

Magic the Gathering game play and instructional, hosted by Jon Bilderback. Come as a seasoned player or someone who wants to learn! No cards needed.

Local singer/songwriter Charley Ramsay will be performing on the Arts and Craft stage. He’ll be playing songs off his new album, Dirt Floor Camelot. You don’t want to miss it!

A small-town Texas singer/songwriter, Charley Ramsay blends vintage Americana with modern pop production to create his unique sound.  His rustic storytelling explores life in a rapidly changing world, balancing wry societal observations with heartfelt confessions - all delivered with blues-style, country baritone vocals. After a 10-year stint of writing and performing in the Austin area with life-long friends, and since the release of his 2008 solo album ‘Catalyst,’ he has been committed to writing songs he thinks are good enough to share. He is happy to now call Lockhart home and is excited to be finishing up his new release coming out in February, featuring 9 new original songs.

No cover, show starts around 8pm

RITA BLISS - Rita Bliss is a folk musician from Rochester, New York and is now based in Austin Texas. Though a Rust Belt native, Rita’s melodies are rooted in familiar old-time banjo sounds that evoke travels along the backroads of the South. Influenced by John Prine, Joni Mitchell, and Nanci Griffith, Rita’s songwriting weaves together timeless love stories with long drives, porch gatherings, and letters between loved ones. The love stories are unabashedly queer, the porch gatherings are sometimes rowdy, and the conversations often touch on true-to-life mental health challenges.

Rita is releasing two singles from her debut solo album, "Peaches and Apple Pies," in May and June of 2024. Produced by Grammy-nominated musician Dom Fisher, the album will feature "Drive You to Kentucky", "The Best Bar in Texas", and "Two Dollar Bill" with a release date of July, 2024. She'll be making stops in Dallas, St. Louis, Chicago, and Nashville this spring and can otherwise be found in and around Austin.

Join us for a free Thursday show featuring SPLOOT (Austin) and Gravity Hotel (Lockhart).

SPLOOT - Wayne Dalchau - bass, Abraham Van Vleck - drums, Alex Sylva - guitar and vocals, Lauren Fogel - guitar and vocals, Jory Balsimo - keys and vocals

GRAVITY HOTEL - Dan Goodman - Vocals/guitar, Danny Manning - Drums, Josh Schaefer, Bass

Slurp 'n Sketch Sundays with Magikal Megan is an experience for those who want to learn more about drawing, but who don't want to sit through a super serious class on the subject. Part stand up comedy, part sing-along (with thematic playlists), each 90 minute session will include a demonstration of drawing principles and techniques to take you from basic doodling to successfully building texture and dimension in your work, all while leaving room to relax, chat, and interact with friends.

Session 1: Drawing & Rendering Basics--Anyone can drag a pencil around on a page, but creating an image with dimension requires rendering, or visiting the page again and again to create shadows, highlights and atmosphere.

Your favorite First Friday supergroup No Recess is BACK for First Friday, this time with special guests Gravity Hotel!

No Recess is an enigma in and of itself - rotating members, rotating song selections, but always a kickass good time! Always featuring Will Rhodes and Mark Creaney, sometimes featuring Ben Jacks and Myles Good, sometimes other amazing musicians! You’ll be happy you’re here, we promise.

Gravity Hotel is Classic Modern Rock: Influenced from Black Sabbath to Incubus to Queens of the Stone Age to Helmet. Starring some Lockhart superstars, this will be their FIRST SHOW! Come out and support!

Doors at 7 • Show at 9 • $10

Join Ethan Ford and Mark Allan Atwood for a Sunday Song Swap!

We are excited to welcome artist Kellie Sorrows, the display designer for Austin’s Anthropologie, for a one-of-a-kind macramé workshop!

In this class you will learn how to begin a macrame piece, measure out your cord, learn and practice several different foundational macrame knots and make a piece that is uniquely yours to take home. Once you've learned the basic knots you will make a small wall piece for practice and then we will move onto a more advanced mini cinch bag. The class is perfect for beginners and anybody interested in learning the art of macrame.

Everything will be provided by the artist.

Join us for an amazing show! Doors at 7 - you get to see THREE, count 'em, THREE incredible acts for the price of one!

@creekbedcarter WITH @bethchrisman - if you've seen either of these artists perform, you know how good they both are. I honestly think seeing them play together is going to make my head explode.They both have wholesome spirits and listening to them brings me joy. @hoytvantanner is a master wordsmith, musical genius, and back-road Shakespeare. His melodies will haunt you for up to 20 years (it's true, it happened to me) and his verse will leave you wanting more. Plus he's got A+ banter game and you're sure to hear a hilarious story.@largebrushcollection is a melodic soundscape to tickle your ears and your heart. In listening to them, I'm brought back to my early 20s when I was listening to a lot of Rilo Kiley, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and the like. This group is really incredible and you're lucky to have a chance to see them! Doors at 7pm • Music at 8pm • $10 at the door

Join us for some live Irish music in a session-style environment! Grab a drink and watch the session players perform traditional Irish songs. For more information, check out their Facebook group - Lockhart Irish Session

It’s time for March’s Open Mic Night! Come sing a song, follow along with our flash fiction prompts, read a poem, tell some jokes, or anything else! Sign-ups start at 7 and fill up fast, so make sure you don’t miss out. We strongly enforce performance time limits so we can get as many people on stage as possible and don’t have to cut anyone off the list. Please be courteous and enthusiastic towards all performers. Everyone belongs on our stage.

Flash Fiction Prompts: TBD

Come by around 7 to sign up on the day of the event!

Magic the Gathering game play and instructional, hosted by Jon Bilderback. Free event.

Y'all ready for another LOCKBUSTER "it's so bad it's good" movie night? Well get ready, because this Wednesday at 8pm me, @alexrcady and @lynseybtk are teaming up once again to bring you one of the most laughable movies out there.

This one is a little more in the mainstream than TROLL 2 so you might have heard of it. It's the 1995 classic CONGO with Laura Linney, Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Dylan Walsh, and more! This stunner has one star on Rotten Tomatoes but somehow 4.5 stars on Amazon, so who knows!

STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE.

Join us and local legend Stephen Kirkham (formerly of the Polyphonic Spree) for a once-in-a-lifetime show with Near Beer for St. Paddy’s Day!

Featuring Joel Wall, Joey Siara, Brent Stranathan, Stephen Kirkham, and Jeremy Levy, Near Beer will perform a full set, THEN perform a full covers set where anyone can get up and play, sing, or vibe.

Doors at 8, Show at 9. $10 at the door

We’re welcoming one of our dear friends Nicolette Costanzo to the stage with the Lockhart Premiere of The Frog Poem Project. Nicolette has performed this collaborative poem experience in cities like San Francisco and Chicago, and we can’t wait to host her and a cast of characters for the Lockhart reading!

The Frog Poem is a long-term poem project including the voices of many people from many places. The piece will be performed by Nicolette and various other readers representing the voices of friends and poets throughout Nicolette’s life.

7pm • No cover

We’re welcoming back one of our FAVORITE past acts - Factual Brains! There’s really nothing like the experience of seeing them live, from the fun lights show, to the choreographed dances, to the interactive tambourine section that you all get to be a part of. Truly a DO NOT MISS show.

Joining Factual Brains are local legends for a good reason, Attic Ted! If you’ve never seen Attic Ted before, now is the opportunity of a lifetime. In their words, they are “gothic carnival post theatrically punk not wave texas masked music.” What’s not to love? Answer: nothing, it’s incredible.

8pm • $10 at the door

Community Drink and Draw: Unleash Your Creativity!Join us for a creative evening at Lockhart Arts & Craft's highly requested Drink and Draw gathering.

Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM (loosley)This event provides a relaxed and inspiring setting for artists of all experience levels. Whether you're a beginner, a seasoned pro, or a doodler, all are welcome. Engage in conversations with fellow artists, exchange techniques, and discover new approaches to your craft. Immerse yourself in an environment brimming with ideas to reignite your artistic spark.

As always with community run events, we encourage the purchase of at least one beverage per person (this, of course, includes non-alcoholic beverages). You don’t have to get boozie, but we do appreciate the financial support at our bar.

Magic the Gathering game play and instructional, hosted by Jon Bilderback. Free event.

It’s All-Day Happy Hour! We know after a First Friday weekend it’s tough to get ready for the week, so we’re here for a few last-minute hangs, and did we mention 24-oz Lone Stars for $3?

$5 Drafts

$8 Specialty Cocktails

$3 24-oz Lone Star Cans

We’re excited to host Boi Orbison for a night of dancing to the hits of 90s/00s country!! Boi Orbison hosts an incredible queer-friendly country dance party in Austin and all around the country, and we can’t wait for him to grace our stage at Arts & Craft!

Pro Tips: Wear your best, dance the night away, sweat your makeup off, and HYDRATE

8pm-midnight / No cover

DOORS at 7pm ($10 cover), music starts at 8pm

LILLY WINWOOD:

“When something is in your blood, it’s easy to take for granted. But if the last few years have taught Lilly Winwood anything, it’s that nothing is set in stone. Mixing salt-of-the-earth songwriting with a graceful splash of old-world sophistication, the Americana songstress reached a long-sought milestone with her 2021 album debut, Time Well Spent, only to feel like the clock had run out. But with her follow-up LP, Talking Walls, a weary creative heart has something to say once more.

The daughter of Grammy winning British rocker Steve Winwood (Traffic, Spencer Davis Group), Lilly grew up splitting time between the U.K. and Nashville’s neon-lit streets. Back then music was ever present, she says, and whether performing with her older brother, writing teenaged odes to young love or just soaking in her father’s work, it gave Winwood a unique creative perspective – one that felt more in line with Nashville than London.

Moving to Music City for good at 18, Winwood soon gravitated to the alternative-minded enclave of East Nashville, and after forming creative partnerships with locals like Boo Ray and Don Gallardo, released her Silver Stage EP in 2017. Time Well Spent followed in 2021, backed by East Nashville household names Alex Munoz and Allen Thompson, earning accolades from tastemakers like Rolling Stone Country as she solidified a go-your-own-way sense of earthy pop.

​Winwood mixes a steady throb of up-all-night angst with a gentle country-rock vibe of dreamy clarity in her latest releaseTalking Walls, penned over long sleepless nights, with clear eyes and a willingness to ask tough questions, Winwood simply wrote her story and brought it to her band at Nashville’s Trace Horse studio – no producer needed. Describing it like “painting with sound,” Winwood spent hours alone with just a guitar and a pen beforehand, getting to know herself and the world she’d kept at arm’s length during the pandemic. No longer trying to impress anyone, this album features the weary sense of freedom that comes with letting down one’s guard – and the title itself speaks to that freedom.”

CYRENA WAGES:

“The Wages’ were run out of North Carolina for stealing horses and other boorish behavior. We settled in North Mississippi and evolved into three groups: the preachers; the drunks and the outlaws; and then kind of a mid-range group. I came from the mid-range group.” 

Cyrena Wages fell in love with music on the country backroads between Millington and Shelby Forest, two small towns just north of Memphis. Her upcoming debut album, Vanity Project, is both an exercise in rebellion against years of conditioning, as well as a way of processing her own struggles, healing, and growth. As much as Memphis shaped her positively, there were aspects of growing up as a woman in the South that didn’t align with who she wanted to become. Cyrena tapped producer Matt Ross-Spang (Charley Crockett, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Margo Price) to helm Vanity Project at Southern Grooves Studio in Memphis. 

“It had been a really long time coming. I was getting ready to make this record,” says Cyrena, “and I heard about a music biz guy saying—before ever hearing my songs—’Yeah, but she’s kind of a vanity project, right?’” 

And just like that, the album had roots and the title track was born. “I just feel ready, when I haven’t felt ready before. Everybody comes to terms with themselves on a different timeline. Now it’s my time.” Vanity Project is slated for 2024 release with debut single Carried Away expected February 9th.”